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Beyond Email: 5 Social Media Tools for Class Communications
Wendy [email protected]
Kent State University
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You can access everything later at
• http://teachingintroaccounting.com/
• Email me at [email protected]
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How do you feel about social media?
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Reasons to embrace social media
• Power to engage • “Meet them where they live” • Social media is not going away• Businesses want to hire workers who
understand social media
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The Email Divide: Teens are Choosing Other Communication Methods
Source: http://bit.ly/dYvRJE
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Overview
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Uses for Twitter
• Communicate with students– Announcements– Reminders– Homework hints
• In-class back channel• Follow professionals
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Why Twitter has been useful…
• Text messages
• Integration with Blackboard Vista8
• 140 character limit - FOCUS
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Overview
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85% of college students use Facebook…
…70% of them log in every single day
(Source: http://blog.socialmaximizer.com/10-bizarre-facts-you-ought-to-know-about-facebook/)
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Friend your students?
Facebook group?
Facebook page?
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Why Facebook has been useful…
• Very popular with students
• Can have Twitter tweets pushed to Facebook page automatically
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Overview
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Why Posterous has been useful…
• Communication
• Auto posts to Facebook and Twitter
• Longer posts than Twitter and Facebook
• Gives you URLs for “answers” to common questions
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Overview
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• Social network
• http://about.ning.com/pearsonsponsorship/
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Ning Components
• Discussion forum• Videos• Inbox• Member listing, profiles, pics• Blog postings• Latest activity feed
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Why Ning has been useful…
• Communication
• Facilitates interaction between students and professor
• Facilitates student to student interactions
• Lets you listen to the class chatter
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Financial accounting class Spring 2011 (601 students total)
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Overview
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Overview
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We can use social media too…
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What to do next….
• Pick ONE tool (Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Ning)
• Implement that one tool
• Experiment
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http://teachingintroaccounting.com/
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Questions????Wendy Tietz…[email protected]
http://teachingintroaccounting.com/Using technology in teaching accounting blog
Narrated how-to slide shows for:•Twitter basics
•Adding a Twitter feed to Blackboard Vista8•Facebook page creation and management
•Posterous basics•Ning network creation
•LinkedIn basics